Five
billion
dollars a year
but
Administrator
Helen Clark
virtually
never
holds a
question and
answer press
conference at
UN
Headquarters
in
New York.

Last
year after an
inquiry by
Inner City
Press, she did
disavow
a previous
business award
she'd given to
a tobacco firm.
That came
through UNDP
lead
spokesperson
Satinder
Bindra, to
whom along
with
Clark's
"personal"
spokesperson
Christina
LoNigro and
Abdel-Rahman
Ghandour the
Free UN
Coalition for
Access has
sent these
questions:

"This
is a timely
request for an
explanation of
how (or if) it
is
consistent
with UN system
principles and
rules for UNDP
Administrator
Helen Clark's
upcoming talk
"about her
work as head
of the
United Nations
Development
Program" to
have an entrance
fee of
$10, and even
$5 for
children, here.

"Given
that this
for-pay event
is impending,
please provide
the requested
explanation
upon receipt /
as quickly as
possible and
confirm
receipt
of this
request for
explanation.

"This
is also a
formal request
that
Administrator
Clark
belatedly hold
a
question and
answer press
conference in
UN
Headquarters
in New York,
and for an
explanation of
why she has
done even
fewer of these
than
Kemal Dervis
or Ad Melkert.
Thank you in
advance."

But
since UNCA
2013 president
Pamela Falk
has said that
this first
question can
be given to
ANY dues
paying member
of UNCA, even
one who
ran for but
was not
elected to the
Executive
Committee, it
is clearly
a situation of
pay to play: a
person getting
a first
question at
the
UN in exchange
for paying
money. Where
is the Office
of Legal
Affairs? The
Ethics Office?
OIOS?

Also
the UN gives
large room
S-310 to UNCA,
for briefings
they publicize
only to those
who pay them
money. Even
member states
have started
to
complain about
this. But
those in
charge of this
increasingly
discredited
partnership,
the UN
Censorship
Alliance, are
apparently
out of touch
with member
states and the
rules of the
UN that at
least
some of them
used to
previously
seek to
enforce.

This
charging of
money to
children to
hear a UN
system
official speak
takes place
outside of UN
premises, far
from New York
in Helen
Clark's native
New Zealand.
Watch this
site.